Re: [PULL 16/45] vl: Add option to avoid stopping VM upon guest panic

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 20/01/21 14:54, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Why would pause be immediately followed by poweroff ? These are independant
> actions, and the mgmt app should be deciding what todo next after the
> pause action. It may wish to capture a guest crash image before poweroff.

That's exactly why -action was introduced (and before that, why 
-no-shutdown affected the behavior of panicking too).

Guest panic will exit QEMU by default, but you can use "-action 
panic=pause" or "-no-shutdown" to change the default.

Paolo